quick updates...

We have another snow day today.  The kiddos were dismissed early because of it.  

 

I'm still recovering from being sick over the weekend, so... yuck.

 

Oh, and I've gained a child.  WB, Little Man's best friend (and arch nemesis, in the way that only they can be) is hanging out with us while his mommy and daddy are at the hospital.  She's due in 7 weeks, but may have to go early, so she's checking with the doctor today to see what they say.

 

Needless to say, I may not be blogging too much in the next couple of days.  Yeah, I know, how is that different from how often I've blogged in the last few days, but cut me some slack, will ya?

 

I've been tagged by Tara over at Sticky Fingers, and I fully intend to follow through, but it may take a couple of days.  I will get it done, however, so stay tuned.  It's one of those photo tags and it just so happens that the photo file on our computer the tag landed on is a folder of pictures that Monkey has taken.  Should be interesting.

  

Oh, and while I'm at it - what a game last night!  First, I couldn't believe I stayed up for it and second, I couldn't believe how good it was.  Personally, I was hoping the Cardinals would win simply because they were the underdogs, but since I have family from PA, I'm also glad the Steelers won.

 

What's in the box??

Is Christmas really only a couple of days away?  I'm so excited!  There's a box here - opened! - with my name on it and I really REALLY want to peek inside.  Trey has delicately taped it shut, with a tiny hair placed just so, so he'd know if I went snooping around.

 

Ok, not really, but all the same, it's KILLING ME!

 

And I can't wait for the kids to open their gifts.  Monkey has been asking  for one thing and I got it!  It's an American Girl doll, and I got it for a steal from someone I work with.  She never really played with it that much when she was younger - it's just been sitting in its box in her closet.  And I bought it with a scene book.  Something that is big enough that Monkey can set it up and play with the doll in different rooms and stuff.  It's really cool.

 

Little Man was easy to shop for this year, too.  He loves Cars, so that's most of what he's getting.  It's funny, but this is the first year that I was pretty much DONE with all my shopping well before Christmas.  By "well before," I mean about two weeks before Christmas.  I'm not good enough to get all my shopping done before November.  I just can't do that.  I've been a procrastinator for years.  It takes a while to change habits but I'm working on it.  Right now I'm enjoying not having shopping hanging over my head.

 

And now my house is a little cleaner than it was this morning.  I only did the bathrooms, kitchen floor and vacuuming (again, because Little Man broke yet another ornament).  I cleared out some leftovers from the fridge and changed the litter box because the trash service comes tomorrow morning.

 

Now it's time to sit on the couch and eat bon bons.  I need a book.  There's a particular book that I'm waiting on from the library, but it isn't in yet.  Bummer.  I got roped in by some friends to read Twilight.  It's 500+ pages and I finished it within 24 hours.  Luckily, someone had given me book two, New Moon, to hang on to while I was finding the friend to borrow Twilight from, so as soon as I was done with Twilight, I went right into New Moon.  Again, 500+ pages done within 24 hours.  I had to wait a few days to borrow the third one, Eclipse.  I didn't finish that one as quickly because I started it the Friday before Little Man's birthday, but I was done with it by Sunday.  It's been over a week since I've finished it and I'm just dying to get my hands on the last one, Breaking Dawn.  Now it's just a waiting game to see who comes up with it first; the library or my friend who is still reading it.

 

Yes, this is one of those random stream-of-consciousness kind of posts where nothing is really connected, I'm just letting my fingers type.  

 

Trey is screwing with me now.  He just plopped THE BOX on the desk right next to me.  He's just mean.  I hate it when he does this.  He's just goading me on to open the box and spoil my Christmas.  

 

Survey question:  Do I open the box or wait until Christmas?

 

Randomness

Is it Thursday already?  Time just flies by.  I had 170 entries to read in my reader this morning.  Will I get to them all?  No way.  Too much to do.  I really don't even have time to write this but I feel as though I'm neglecting my blog duties, so here I am.

 

I believe that I was tagged last week by Blogger Dad.  So, here goes...

 

The Rules:

 

1) Link to the person who tagged you.

2) Post the rules on your blog.

3) Write six random things about yourself.

4) Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.

5) Let each person know they are tagged and leave a comment on their blog.

6) Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

 

Six random things about me.

 

1)  I have a freckle on the side of my foot.  

 

2)  I have a tattoo on the back of my shoulder.  It's of an eye.  It's kinda neat, actually - I designed it myself.

 

3)  I like "guy movies" better than "chick flicks."  

 

4)  I got some wonderfully smelling homemade soap from a good friend for Christmas and every time I use it (which is several times a day 'cause I love it), I think of that nasty scene in Fight Club.  You know the one...

 

5)  I can't wait for the new season of Lost.

 

6)  I like to do crafty things.

 

Ok, now for the tagging.  I'm tagging Michaela, who gave me the soap; Hey Lola because she makes beautiful things;  Secret Agent Mama because I love her photography;  Scott at The Ever-Changing Thought because he writes openly about alcoholism; Chuck Westbrook and his under-appreciated blog project; and Dawn at Because I Said So because she said so.

 

Now, for other randomness...

 

I have a party at Monkey's school today; a party at Trey's work tomorrow that I'm bringing a dessert to; about 3 dozen cookies to bake because our church delivers them on Christmas Eve to people who are working and they need the cookies dropped off this Sunday so they can get them all packaged up; I still haven't gotten my mom's Christmas present and I need to ship that out to where she lives; I still have birthday party pictures I need to upload to the internet;  and somewhere in there I need to eat, sleep and breathe.

 

Don't you just love this time of year?  

 

bygone era...

I was channel surfing (I do that a lot) last night because the Olympics just wasn't holding my attention.  I'm guessing I just wasn't watching the right event.  Anyway, I found something on TV that I haven't seen in a long, long time.

 

wait for it...

 

Mork and Mindy!  What a classic TV show.  I LOVE Robin Williams.  I used to watch Mork and Mindy when I was a kid.  I even had my own Mork suspenders.  As I sat there and watched, I wondered how many antics that Williams did on the show were written in and how many were just him making it up as he goes along.  I kept watching the other actors to see if they'd crack up.  I saw a few "almosts" but no actual cracking up, like on Saturday Night Live for example. 

  

So then, today, instead of doing anything remotely productive, like housework or whatever, I watched you tube videos of Mork and Mindy.

 

Nanu nanu